I can do a demo on getting linux to work on an HP Pavillion zv6000 for EDUARDO. LOL. Hey maybe I can get that blonde to do the demo so I know he would pay attention. lol. Here's an Idea for an open source project, that could help a lot of new linux users, a wiki that helps break people into linux. (note: when I say other I assume that there isn't any other) I'd like to see demo's on more networking things, like apache(other web servers), squid (other proxies), iptables (other firewalls), SQL... if I come up with more.... <div>On 4/7/06, Charles Ulrich <<a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com">charles@idealso.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We have two new articles posted to the GLLUG website: A Day in the Sun by Frank Dolinar Desktop Linux Overview by Caleb Cushing Go check them out at <a href="http://www.gllug.org">http://www.gllug.org</a> if you get the chance. I'd like to point out that anyone on the mailing list or attending the meetings can send me their articles for publication on the website. And speaking of contributions, we're very nearly dry on meeting topics for April and beyond. If you have anything you'd like to present, please let me know. The meeting topic doesn't have to be a presentation per se. If you'd just like to have a Q&A session, that's fine too. We can even spend the evening just talking about something or working on a problem. In short, I'm putting it to the group to toss out a few ideas. Not long ago, Jeff suggested that we, as a group, start or contribute to an open source project. This is a good idea, but experience has shown that most people attend for the information and the socializing. Most of the actual work done on a project or workshop at a meeting is done by one or two people. Maybe after Penguicon, we could start up something like that, but it definitely won't take over the meetings. June has an extra Thursday in it, so maybe we could do a BBQ that month. It won't be a train wreck if we just spend a meeting here and there socializing. But if we don't have some direction for most of the meetings, it'll be hard to maintain and expand our membership. Here are a few topics worth considering: - Databases - Basic command-line concepts (since we have a few newer Linux users attending regularly) - Virtualization - Networking - Desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, your favorite window manager) - Security concepts Any other topics that you would like to see covered? -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC -- <a href="http://www.idealso.com">http://www.idealso.com</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu"> linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>